A very early recording made when I was 16 using a toy xylophone, two reel-to-reel tape recorders, and a church. The two tape recorders were used to build up 6 or 7 layers of toy xylophone (I have no notes from this time alas), then the layered recording was slowed down to 1/8th of the original, just using the normal tape speed controls. The slowed down recording was then played back and amplified into the church using the first player on the ground, and recorded by the second player up near the organ with I think 3 or 4 strategically placed condenser mics. Recorded in 1982.

This recording is a virtualisation of the original using a room simulator as I only have the original source tape and not a recording from the church.


This audio is part of the collection: At Sea
It also belongs to collection: Netlabels

Artist/Composer: Alan Morse Davies
Date: 1982-02-06
Keywords: minimalist; minimal; minimalism; experimental; Alan Morse Davies

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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Reviewer: RadioTinnitus - - March 14, 2009
Subject: interesting memories
i visited trieste in 1982. the pigeons on the central plaza had leprosy or some such disease in which they hobbled around the fountains on stumps of missing feet. this piece is certainly the soundtrack to that experience.


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Reviewer: 833-45 - - March 14, 2009
Subject: Subtle & tempered
The starkness is engulfing. A glacial gamelan full of open space.